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In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[â ]
2011Randy Savage, American wrestler and actor (born 1952)[â ]
Randy Mario Poffo, better known by his ring name "Macho Man" Randy Savage, was an American professional wrestler and professional baseball player, best known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling (WCW).
2011Mamata Banerjee is sworn in as the Chief Minister of West Bengal, the first woman to hold this post.[â ]
Mamata Banerjee is an Indian politician who is serving as the eighth and current chief minister of the Indian state of West Bengal since 20 May 2011, the first woman to hold the office. Having served multiple times as a Union Cabinet Minister, Mamata Banerjee became the Chief Minister of West Bengal for the first time in 2011. She founded the All India Trinamool Congress in 1998 after separating from the Indian National Congress, and became its second chairperson later in 2001. She often refers to herself as Didi.
When they met Friday, President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel faced a turning point in a relationship that was not warm to begin with.
A prophecy that Saturday is Judgment Day, and the start of the five-month end of the world, is dividing families.
The fundâs sexual norms are markedly different from those of Washington, leaving its female employees at risk of harassment.
As soon as she started to sing on Thursday at the Beacon Theater, Adele was fully in command, joining the lineage of British soul and pop singers.
At the age of 80, with almost 40 books behind him and nearly as many accumulated honors, Harold Bloom has written a kind of summing-up of his monumental career as a critic and scholar.
Home offices have become so desirable that they are now showing up as amenities in new construction.
For decades, musicians have used a dank basement on the Lower East Side as a rehearsal studio. Now, the building has been cited for violations, and they are being evicted.
The Mazda 2, which arrived in the United States late last year, is a useful four-door hatchback that is fun to drive. Actually, thatâs its greatest strength.
Rafael Nadal now has to worry about Novak Djokovic, who is unbeaten in 2011, in his bid to equal Bjorn Borgâs record of six French Open titles.
A quest to get a better feel for the Fiat 500 took a reporter along the East Coast to Naples, Verona, Florence, Rome and Venice. Like the 500, these American cities have Italian antecedents.
A statement by the medical examiner in Hennepin County, Minn., said the Rangers playerâs death was accidental.
Through the farmland, pastures and one-light towns along Virginiaâs Crooked Road, there is a single, unifying sound: old-time, foot-tapping homegrown music.